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I was at the lecture as well and I remember Lepore talking extensively about the "Ride of Paul Revere" by Longfellow as an example as how Abolitionists used the Revolution for political purposes. (Remember she spoke about Kennedy and Byrd and how they confused the origins of the meaning of that poem? And how about her use of Frederic Douglas's speech on the Revolution And then James Earl Jones quoting Douglas?)
It was a wide raging talk that is going to take awhile to digest. I was suprised at one of the questions in the Q&A, implying that she located today's Tea Party movement was a recent phenomenon of renactments. I can sort of see why he might of thought because she herself employed that rhetoric, but the purpose of why she did that, in my view, is to illustrate through her acts of speech, the revolution is used throughout history for many causes, with many consequences: election outcomes, judicial appointments, the bantor of two aging senators, or the memory of a young person.
Oct 8, 2010, 5:14:02 PM
Posted to Invocations Right and Left